The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 431
Okay, so I read the new ACCF press release, which was forwarded to me by
Bobby Likis (a real live expert in automobile maintenance and repair, and host
of a fabulous national radio program). Then I read Dr. Ugarte's complete report,
and here's what the email I sent to him and ACCF says:
Gentlemen:
I finished reading your press release, as well as the 17-page report written
by Dr. Daniel De La Torre Ugarte that's referred to in the press release.
Before I comment on Dr. Ugarte's report I'd like to point out that I'm still
waiting for a reply to a letter that I wrote to George David Banks and your
organization on March 21, 2016; subsequent to Mr. Banks' editorial titled
"Renewable Fuel Standard Continues To Devastate." I think it's rather
irresponsible for him and your organization - if it's a legitimate organization - to have not responded to me. If you misplaced what I sent to ACCF
in March you can read the entire text here: Meet The New 'Tool' In Big
Oil's Efforts To Scuttle Ethanol .
On to the present: It seems to me that Dr. Ugarte has picked up the baton
fumbled by Professors Pimentel and Patzek in their ill-fated attempts to
present overly exaggerated, convoluted "scientific" information in place of
facts and common sense. Years ago, when I was young, I also worked
with models. I found that the glue used at that time made me dizzy. I'm
wondering if the same thing happened to Dr. Ugarte with his modeling.
Yes, of course, I'm being sarcastic and I'm trying to add some levity to the
issue, because that's the only way to take Dr. Ugarte's report.
The bottom line in the newest ACCF and Dr. Ugarte's attempt to vilify
ethanol is that if any of the conclusions contained in the report were significant and relevant that the report should call for the immediate closure
of all golf courses located in the states that border the Mississippi River,
or that have rivers and streams that feed into the Mississippi River. Did
you know, by the way, that there are nearly 10,000 such golf courses and
they all use fertilizer? Do we really need to have people wasting their lives
with a silly game when there are hundreds of millions of starving people
in the world?
These golf courses are in addition to all the corporate and educational
campus lawns located in those states, not to mention all the residential
communities, all of which use fertilizer that eventually gets washed into
the rivers, streams, etc., etc.
